Design Brief | The Drawing Board 2023
Summary
TLDRThe eighth edition of the Drawing Board Competition, hosted by Mindspace Architects, focuses on designing an archaeological museum at a historically rich site in Badami. The site features stunning Rock Cut caves, temples, and a large lake, creating a unique architectural opportunity. Participants are challenged to integrate their designs with the natural and historical elements, considering factors like materiality, the environment, and the site's visual and experiential impact. The goal is to create a structure that either stands out or blends seamlessly into the landscape, enhancing the site's beauty and historical significance.
Takeaways
- 📍 The event is the eighth edition of the Drawing Board Competition, organized by Mindspace Architects.
- 🏞️ The competition site is in Badami, known for its ancient Rock Cut caves and temples dating back to the 5th to 7th century.
- 🌊 The site is located near the Agastya Lake, with the caves on one side and the Bhoothnath Temple on the other.
- 🔨 Participants are tasked with designing an archaeological museum on the site, replacing an existing low-key structure.
- 🌳 The site features a cliff with cascading terraces down to the water, offering a unique architectural challenge.
- 🚶 The approach to the site includes a pedestrian-dominant road with low-scale houses, leading to a dramatic reveal of the lake and temple.
- 🛤️ There are multiple gateways and a pathway through rock formations that provide a magical, canyon-like experience.
- 🪨 The site's materiality is significant, with the use of a beautiful yellowish-brown rock that has aged gracefully over centuries.
- 🌅 Designers are encouraged to consider changes in eye level and how it affects the perception of the site, especially in relation to the sunrise and sunset.
- 🛠️ The challenge is to create a structure that either makes a bold statement or seamlessly integrates into the environment, respecting the site's historical and natural context.
Q & A
What is the Drawing Board competition?
-The Drawing Board competition is an architectural design challenge that has been held for eight editions, attracting increasing participation each year.
What is the significance of Badami as a site for the competition?
-Badami is known for its historical Rock Cut caves dating back to the 5th to 7th Century, along with temples and a significant lake called Agasthya Lake, making it a unique and inspiring location for architectural design.
What are the main features of the site in Badami?
-The site features the Rock Cut caves, a series of temples, the Agasthya Lake, a cliff overlooking the water, and a large ghat (series of steps) on the western side.
How is the approach to the site described in the script?
-The approach to the site is through low-scale houses with winding roads, and upon reaching the site, one experiences a dramatic reveal of the lake and the temple beyond a large cantilevering rock with a tree behind it.
What is the task for participants in the competition?
-Participants are tasked with designing an archaeological museum on the site, replacing an existing low-key structure with the potential for a more impactful design.
What is the current size of the existing archaeological museum?
-The existing archaeological museum is approximately 6,000 square feet.
What is the proposed design approach for the new museum?
-The design approach should consider the site's unique features, including the cliff, the cascading terraces, the water edge, and the surrounding temples, aiming to create an experiential and harmonious structure.
What are the site's physical boundaries?
-The physical boundaries of the site include the cliff, the edge of the water, and a small shrine, with the road being pedestrian dominant and having minimal traffic.
How does the script emphasize the importance of the site's visual and physical experience?
-The script highlights the importance of the site's visual and physical experience by describing the magical and unforgettable experience of walking through the rocks, the changing eye levels, and the influence of light and the surrounding environment.
What is the significance of the materiality in the design of the new museum?
-The materiality is significant as it should respond to the local context, using the yellowish-brown rock found in the area, which has aged gracefully and is used in the construction of the historical temples.
What decision do participants need to make regarding the architectural statement of the new museum?
-Participants need to decide whether the new museum should make a bold architectural statement or dissolve into the background, becoming part of the overall environment and scenario.
Outlines
🏰 Introduction to the Drawing Board Competition and Badami Site
The script introduces the eighth edition of the Drawing Board competition, hosted by mindspace, an architectural firm. The competition has seen increasing participation over the years. This year, the chosen site is in Badami, famous for its 5th to 7th Century Rock Cut caves. The site also features temples and a large lake called the Gutsal Lake. The site is situated near these caves, which are on a cliff overlooking the water, and is accessible through a series of low-scale houses and winding roads. The competition's task is to design an archaeological museum on a site that currently houses a low-key structure of about 6,000 square feet. The speaker encourages participants to envision the site without the existing structure and to consider the potential of the location, which is described as a dream site for architects.
🌄 Designing the Museum: Context, Materiality, and Experience
The second paragraph delves into the design challenge of creating an archaeological museum that is sensitive to its historical and natural context. The speaker emphasizes the importance of experiencing the site firsthand, as it offers a multifaceted problem that includes the site's physical attributes, its relation to water and distant temples, and the use of local materials such as the yellowish-brown rock found in the area's temples. The speaker suggests that the new structure should either make a bold statement or blend into the background, becoming part of the environment. The paragraph also highlights the significance of changing eye levels in experiencing the site, urging designers to consider the site's contours, trees, rocks, and the way light changes throughout the day. The speaker concludes by encouraging participants to respond to these elements and create a wonderful design.
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Keywords
💡Drawing Board Competition
💡Badami
💡Rock-Cut Caves
💡Architectural Museum
💡Site Context
💡Ghat
💡Bhoothnath Temple
💡Embarkment
💡Cascading Terraces
💡Materiality
💡Experiential Design
Highlights
Introduction to the 8th edition of the Drawing Board competition by San Diego from Mindspace Architects.
Increasing participation in the competition over the years.
The competition site is in Badami, known for its 5th to 7th Century Rock Cut caves.
Badami features temples and a lake called Gutsal Lake.
The site is in proximity to the lake and the Rock Cut caves.
Description of the site's cliff with a series of caves overlooking the water and the temple.
The approach to the site includes low-scale houses and winding roads.
Surprise element of the site with a huge rock and a big tree upon entering the gateway.
The site's visual impact with the lake and the temple at the end.
Task for participants: Design an archaeological museum on the site.
Existing low-key structure on the site covering 6,000 square feet.
Potential for a dream site for architects to create a unique structure.
Instructions to imagine the site without the existing structure for a fresh design approach.
Details of the site's physical boundary and the requirement to consider the entire site up to the edge of the lake.
Emphasis on the experiential aspect of the site and its pedestrian-dominated road.
Challenge to relate the built environment to the unforgettable experience of walking through the rocks.
Importance of the pathway leading to the rocks and the series of gateways creating a canyon-like structure.
The magical experience of discovering spaces while climbing through the rocks.
Influence of personal experiences and memories on the design process.
The multi-faceted problem involving site, context, water edge, and temples.
Materiality considerations with the use of the local yellowish-brown rock for construction.
The challenge of making the structure either make a statement or dissolve into the background.
The importance of experiencing the site's change in eye level for a different perspective.
Encouragement to respond to site conditions, contours, trees, rocks, and light changes in the design.
Transcripts
[Music]
I'm San Diego hey from mindspace
Architects this is a eighth edition of
the drawing board competition there has
been wonderful response all these years
and more and more participation
happening every year this year we have a
wonderful site for you this is in badami
and uh badami is known for its Rock Cut
caves dating back to about 5th to 7th
Century so it's not only the Rock Cut
caves but there are temples around and
there is a huge lake called a gutsal
lake so our site is in a proximity to
that so if I show you the site that's
the lake we have this Rock Cut caves
it's a kind of a cliff so on this Cliff
you have this series of caves
overlooking into the water and the
temple our site is on the other side
towards the northern side towards the
west of the site is a huge ghat a series
of steps what you see towards the
Eastern side is Bhoothnath Temple now
the approach to the site is something
interesting you sort of come through
this series of houses low scale houses
with winding roads and when you come up
here because of the embankment of the
lake with the houses a skirting that
embankment you are not even aware of it
so you drive through this smaller lens
and come through one Gateway and there
is one huge Rock which cantilevers out
with a big tree behind and you just turn
around and this entire Lake opens up
with the temple sitting at the end
almost like a jewel there what we want
you to do is
to design archaeological Museum there is
this archaeological Museum which is
existing on the site which is about 6
000 square feet of very very low key
structure but looking at the potential
of that site we thought that you can do
something wonderful there because uh
it's a dream site for any architect to
work on so imagine that that structure
doesn't exist there so you come through
this Gateway there is this big tree and
a lake here this guard culminates into
this small Shrine imagine this structure
not to be deaf whether this Cliff as a
background cascading Terraces coming
down you have the cliff on the back that
is the existing structure which you're
supposed to demolish then there are
these levels which Cascade ground down
right up to the water this is a physical
boundary of the site which sort of
encompasses all this area so just to
give you idea this would be the extent
of the site including the small Shine
the edge of the water the road going
through the road has absolutely minimal
traffic so it is pedestrian dominant
road so we want you to consider the
extent of the site right up to the edge
of the gut so it's more of a
experiential or kind of a site though
you are built our Zone would get
restricted more towards the upper right
you can create an intervention right up
to the water
now there is a physical extent of the
site but if you see the visual extent of
the site it goes all the way up to the
Bhoothnath Temple towards one end with
the water in front you have caves on the
other side and the third
very very important aspect is this
pathway which leads up to the Rocks now
there is another Gateway in fact there
are series of gateways and you
experience this almost like a canyon
kind of a structure so you walk through
this clips of rocks and the way they
turn the way the light comes in and
where you climb through and discover
those spaces it's absolutely magical
experience and I had been there during
just after my college disc and I have
such wonderful memories of that space
and which keep reoccurring you know you
keep remembering those those spaces
while designing and consciously or
subconsciously you it has influence on
your work and as a student when you look
at this whole site and look at
especially that experience of walking
through those rocks that's something
which is an unforgettable experience and
I think all of you should really sort of
experience that and how do you sort of
relate that experience into this built
environment and that's a challenge so
it's some multi-faceted problem it's not
only about the site it's about the con
context it's about relating it to the
water edge relating to the temples which
are far off far and there's there's
something about materiality there you
have this beautiful yellowish Brown Rock
which is available so all the temples
whatever construction what you see there
is is all about using that that material
Stone which is just so well because you
see these temples of 5th Century and 6th
century and they still look so fresh
that material has aged so gracefully
over the years so we would like to like
you to respond to all those elements how
do you use it how you how you become
sensitive to it so the structure that
you do belongs to that place you know it
becomes
part of the environment it's not
something so so that's the decision
which is uh which all of you will have
to debate about uh whether whether the
structure which the intervention that
you are going to do there does it have
to
really make a statement or should it
dissolve into the background and become
part of part of the entire
um you know scenario one more important
aspect about
experiencing this site is about a change
of eye level if you if you start seeing
your eye level changing use really
experience this entire
um entire Bowl I would talk about in a
very very different way when you are in
these caves and looking down into the
water the whole thing looks totally
different when you are at the eye level
at the site the entire bowel looks
totally different look at the eye level
look at the site conditions look at the
Contours of the site
the trees there the Rocks there the the
so many references that you have and in
all these magical States uh you know you
see the sunrise and sunset and the way
the light changes so respond to all that
and create something wonderful all the
best
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